On October 3, UIUC sustainability representatives met and discussed the following:

Attendance: Pete Varney, Meredith Moore, Shreya Mahajan, Bryan Johnson, Marty Kaufmann, Morgan White, Daphne Hulse

• Bryan Johnson: res life. Will be having a conversation with the res life Director. Seeing if Sustainability LLC wants to take on the sticker.
• Waste audit: submit a request for the SSC funding. Meredith and Dave discussed this before Daphne joined, wanting to pursue SSC funding.
  • Daphne would do the request. Ask for 25,000 for step 1, and then submit the actual cost in step 2.
• Tim Knox is on the engagement iCAP team. Tim and Marty talk every couple of weeks. Tim had been talking with COO (Roger, chief operations officer) about the need for better recycling for tailgating. This will be in the works for Fall 2023. Marty says they’ve done flyers, but probably not bags before. Maybe we do a kiosk on busy game days.
• Picnic tables. Morgan suggested ARC put them at Vet Med, arboretum, off-of-the-beaten path.
  • Marty says athletics could maybe utilize them? Not against them, but it wasn’t a request of theirs.
  • It’s not a great time of year to get them (they would have to be stored through the winter).
  • Will continue to look into these, but it’s on the back burner for now. Will address it in the spring.
• Temporary Coca-Cola bin discussion. No one is sold on them. But they do provide a benefit at events, to show people (especially students) that we recycle.
  • Hard to clean? Marty: we may or may not need bins at athetics, especially for the zero waste event.
• Meeting on Wednesday: Tell Jake that we do want the bins replaced, but need to clarify where they will go. 60 total? Could all of them get delivered to F&S and deployed for various situations.
  • Determine how many we got originally, and if they can all be replaced (with the Royal Blue).
• Meredith: getting students to help out. Morgan had asked Marty to see if he could find a RSO. Marty has a staff meeting at 2, so he will ask for those contacts. Then, we will connect the students from sustainability to this athletic RSO.